Steward Health Fiasco Could Have Been Prevented - Bloomberg

Steward Health Fiasco Could Have Been Prevented The tough economics of health care have battered hospital finances. Something like a hospital stabilization trust fund might help these critical ... Read More

Steward Health Care news: potential closures, layoffs in future

Steward Health Care, a for-profit health system that serves thousands of patients in Eastern Massachusetts, is in such grave financial distress that it may be unable to continue operating some ... Read More

'Never happens again': Steward crisis rocks already embattled health ...

The fiscal problems at Steward Health Care that exploded into view in recent weeks could push lawmakers into action to "make sure that this never happens again," according to the top Senate Democrat. Read More

Senators slam Steward Health Care CEO, plan contempt vote

U.S. Senators on Thursday called Steward Health Care’s CEO the poster child for corporate greed in health care and vowed to vote next week to hold him in civil and criminal contempt. Read More

Senators subpoena Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre ... - CBS News

Steward Health Care's CEO Ralph de la Torre has for years avoided publicly responding to accusations that he profited at the expense of patients at the dozens of community hospitals around the ... Read More

Healey Under Pressure to Address Steward Health Care Crisis, Brighton ...

Leslie said the crisis at Steward could have been foreseen well in advance. St. Elizabeth’s had failed to pay $150,000 it owed to the ABHC as part of a non-binding community benefits agreement ... Read More

Lawmakers zero in on private equity in health care amid Steward ...

Alison Kuznitz is a reporter for State House News Service, a Massachusetts wire service that’s offered accounts on the activities of state government since 1894. The pressure points inflicted by ... Read More

Steward collapse forum: Experts warn of more closures without change

As he reviewed the Steward fiasco, Seltz said the collapse of the organization could not entirely be laid at the feet of its embattled former CEO, Dr. Ralph de la Torre. “It was not just the ... Read More

Steward bankruptcy developments impacting local hospitals - MSN

An emergency motion filed by Steward Health was granted Tuesday allowing them to sell the contract for services at its hospitals that have been acquired by others to a third party — namely ... Read More

Frustrated Carney Hospital employees call Steward hospital ... - CBS News

Dozens of frustrated Carney Hospital employees gathered with lawmakers at a rally on Monday after Steward Health Care announced the closure of the Boston hospital last week. Read More

Steward crisis: Opportunity to create more stable health care system?

Even as Massachusetts faces the Steward crisis, the state faces other health care issues that have been the focus of legislators and officials for years, according to officials discussing the ... Read More